Bullish / Bearish POC
Flags bars where the Point of Control prints in the wick: absorption and rejection at the extremes most traders miss.
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The heaviest volume tells the story. When it prints in the wick.
The POC is where the most contracts traded inside a bar. When that heaviest volume prints in the wick instead of the body, it often means aggressive traders got absorbed and rejected at an extreme, a classic exhaustion tell.
Spotting this by eye across a fast footprint chart is slow and error-prone, so most traders scroll right past the setups. Bullish/Bearish POC scans every bar for you and tags only the ones where the condition genuinely holds.
Built to do one job well.
Clear BP and SP labels
A subtle, easy-to-miss footprint read becomes a clear label right on the chart: below qualifying bullish bars, above bearish ones.
Objective and rule based
The same positional tests apply to every bar, so you are never eyeballing where the POC sits.
Continuous POC tagging
The optional CT tag surfaces runs of consecutive bars stacking volume at the same price, a visual cue for a building level.
Tunable strictness
Widen it for more signals or tighten it for only the cleanest wick rejections.
Strict rules, no guesswork.
For each bar the indicator reads the Point of Control from the footprint and tests where it sits inside the range using strict positional rules, including a wick filter that demands the POC sit outside the candle body.
Everything is computed from the bar’s own traded volume, so nothing repaints once a bar closes. A separate check tags runs of consecutive bars whose POC lands at the same price.
The detection logic itself is our work: refined on live tape, and the reason the tool is worth paying for. Sensitivity, filters, colors and display are all yours to tune.
When it helps, and when it won’t.
Built for
- ✓Scalping and intraday trading on footprint or candlestick charts
- ✓Absorption and rejection reads at swing extremes
- ✓Confluence with your levels: a BP into support, an SP into resistance
- ✓Futures, most crypto perpetuals and volume-based stocks
Not built for
- ✕Spot forex: no centralized volume means no reliable POC
- ✕Standalone entries: it flags the condition, the trade stays yours
- ✕Very thin bars where the POC gets noisy
- ✕Higher timeframe swing positioning
Questions, answered straight.
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